On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 10:45:33PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote: > On 03/07/2014 09:57 AM, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Another issue is that Gnome3 needs 3D and does not work with x2go (and > > probably freenx/nx if that is going to be packaged). And I almost > > never work directly at a console. KDE seems to mostly work, but it > > is annoying to have to switch after all these years of RedHat pushing > > GNOME. > > To clear something up, IIRC 7 uses GNOME Classic - not stock GNOME 3 - > as its default, which does *not* require 3D. > > In the default desktop, GNOME looks a lot like GNOME 2x. > > This isn't to say we shouldn't package Mate or Xfce or any additional > desktops for CentOS - but it'd be good to make sure people are moving > away from the defaults as an informed choice. GNOME Classic is a set of extensions on top of GNOME 3. However, AIUI GNOME 3 doesn't require 3D hardware because there is an llvmpipe backend that will do software rendering on machines without capable hardware. Performance may be encumbered in that case with a slower CPU, but should still work. -- Paul